Fork.



A. 0. BONIN & L. P. BEAULIEAU.

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APPLICATION FILED 811F117, 1909.

Patented Mar. 1, 1910.

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wow LHHOGRAPHE S wmwmmom a c Id STATES PATEN ALFRED O. BONIN AND LOUIS P. IBEAULIEAU, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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95fi35. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. September 17, 1909.

Patented Mar. it, 1910.

Serial No. 518,176.

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that we, ALFRED O. BONIN and Louis P. BEAULIEAU, cltizens of the wardly extended lever arm 9', and a spring 76 is applied in compression between the lever arm of the tune b and the aforementioned shank having at its forward end a plurality of fixed tines, and a tine of the same configuration as the fixed tines pivotally mountsaid recess 9 and connected to the shank by the cross pivot or rivet i; and the said pivotally mounted tine is provided with a rear- United States of America, and residents of web 1 to maintain such tine b in plane with Holyoke, in the county of .I-Iampden and the fixed tines, the limitation of its swinging State of Massachusetts, have invented cermovement in one direction being insured tain new and useful Improvements in Forks, by the forward end portion of the aforesaid of which the following is a full, clear, and web f which terminates at such a location exact description. as to constitute an abutment for the heel The especial object of this invention is portion at of the pivoted tine. to provide a fork having the tines so 0011- 0 represents a short bar having its upper structed and adapted that they may be end pivotally connected to the rear end of thrust into a somewhat heavy piece of meat the rearwardly extending lever extension being cooked, one of the tines which is pivof the tine and extending into and more or '70 otally jointed on the forward end of the less through the channel in the fork shank fork shank being forced transversely from at a location just to the rear of the web f. its normal position in the plane of the other D represents a lever normally located in tine whereby the several tines of the fork the said longitudinal channel 0 and interimpart such a tension on the piece of meat mediately jointed by the pivot q to the fork 7 5 that the latter may be lifted from the pan shank, this lever having its forward end or vessel in which it is being cooked and jointed to or in engagement with the lower carried on the fork with no liability of its end of the bar 0 while its extremity reardisplacement. wardly of the pivot q is formed to consti- The invention is described in conjunction tute a thumb piece 8 which underlies and is with the accompanying drawings and is set in proximity to the fork handle. forth in the claims. In the use of this implement the fork is, In the drawings :-Figure l is a plan view while all of its tines are alongside each other of the improved fork; Fig. 2 is a side eleor in substantially the same plane, thrust vation of the fork showing the pivotally into a piece of meat or other object to be mounted tine as forced to its position translifted and moved whereupon by a thumb or versely removed from and angular to the finger pressure on the lever extension 8 the fixed tines. Fig. 3 is substantially a central pivoted tine is swung transversely from its vertical longitudinal Section through the normal location and angular to the general fork, the pivoted tine being represented as plane of the other tine for a dil tin t in its normal position. Fig. t is a oroSS sion on the piece of meat; and, as manifest, section on line a r-4, Fig- 3- so long as the pressure on the part 3 is manu- In the drawings, A represents the shank ally maintained, the engagement of the fork of the fork having at its rear end a handle a tines in the piece penetrated thereby is as and havin at its forward end a pair of sured, and the liability of displacement of separated fixed tines b b. The said shank such piece off from the fork is guarded has a longitudinal channel 6 along its under against. side extending from its rear portion adja- We claim cent the handle nearly to its forward end; 1. A fork comprising a shank having at and the shank is made at its forward exits forward end a plurality of fixed tines, tremity with a web f uniting the opposite and a tine of the same configuration as the side portions of the shank which at its forfixed tines pivotally mounted on the forward ward extremity is constructed with an up end of the shank, and having its location bewardly opening recess 9. tween the fixed tines, means for normally B represents the pivotally connected and maintaining the pivoted tine in the plane of movable tine having its location between the fixed tines, and means for swinging the and normally in the same plane with the pivoted tine in a direction transversely to fixed tine b b. This tine B has an ear piece the plane of said fixed tines. h (or duplicated ear pieces) located in the 2. A fork comprising a handle provided no ed on the forward end of the shank, and extending between the fixed tines, and provided with a rearWardly extended lever arm, a lever intermediately pivotally connected to the fork shank and by its forward end connected to the rearwardly extended lever arm of said pivoted tine, and having a thumb piece rearWardly extending from its pivot into proximity to the fork handle, and a spring for maintaining the pivoted tine normally in plane With the fixed tines.

3. A fork comprising a handle provided shank having at its forward end a pair of fixed tines and said shank having a longitudinal channel along its under side extending nearly to its forward end and having a Web at its forward extremity uniting the opposite side portions of the shank and constructed with an upwardly opening recess above the said Web, a tine having an ear piece located in said recess and pivotally connected to the forward portion of the shank and provided with a rearwardly extending lever arm, a spring 111 the sald recess and reacting between the said web and said lever arm, a bar having its upper end pivotally connected to the rear end of the said lever arm, and extending into said longitudinal channel to the rear of said web and another lever normally located in the said longi tudinal channel and intermediately pivotally connected to the fork shank having its forward end jointed to the lower end of said bar and having its extremity rearwardly of its pivot and constituting a thumb piece in proximity to the fork handle.

Signed by us at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED O. BONIN. LOUIS P. BEAULIEAU Vitnesses G. R. DRISCOLL, M. S. BnLLows. 

